IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blairton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-001
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46810
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.4522743
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4562683
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 35A; about 2 miles northeast of the junction of KY-559 and KY-344 at Petersville, about 0.3 mile south of the junction of KY-344 and Bee Branch Road, about 500 feet northwest of Bee Branch Road. X: 2,225,750 feet, Y: 347,700 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • Classificaton Date - 1/2/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum weathered from the shale member of the Borden Formation, Mississippian Geologic System
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, clayey at 94cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/2/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    CARYA

    CORNU

    QUAL

    Acer saccharum

    Carya

    Cornus

    Quercus alba

    sugar maple

    hybrid hickory

    dogwood

    white oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    64 - 94

    94 -

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    82

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3201
    Bt1—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3202
    2Bt2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) channery silty clay loam; 15 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) fine prominent and 15 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3203
    2Cr—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) very channery silty clay; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3204
    2R—94 centimeters (37.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3205